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A couple of days went by without much changing. At first Kurt had hopped that Mr Shue would remember Kurt the next rehearsal but that didn't happen. Non of his friends had remembered either and Kurt kept silent too embarrassed to bring it up again. It was clear they had more important things to care about than him so he wouldn't bother them. Even if it meant him being completely alone. The bullying went on like normal and Kurt had all sorts of bruises on his back and arms from being pushed and shoved in to lockers whenever he passed one of the football players. He tried to not let it bother him too much but it was hard when you ached every time you moved or when you had to constantly watch out for slushies.

He hadn't been able to eat lunch properly for days now because he was contently feeling nauseous when ever he entered the canteen. No matter how hungry he was before. He usually sat their playing with his food and cutting smaller and smaller pieces and taking small sips of water. The others talked loudly about all kinds of stuff and he only listen briefly and didn't participate much at all in the conversations.

"What's on you mind, kiddo?"

Kurt looked up from his seat at the dinner table and smiled at his dad. Burt was staring at him with a deep frown on his forehead.

"Um, nothing" Kurt said reassuringly. "I'm a bit tired I guess"

Parts of him wanted to tell his father everything that was going on but parts of him were just too proud. He had always been raised to be strong and just until recently he had been doing just fine. Besides his father didn't need any added stress to his heart and Kurt was deadly terrified that his father would get another heart attack if he go all worked up for something like this. It wasn't worth the risk.

"So how's school?" Burt asked ad turned to both Finn and Kurt.

Finn chewed frantically before answering and Kurt took another bite of his potato.

"It's all good. We have this new guy on the football team who is really good so I think we have a fair chance of winning this year" Finn smiled and Burt's eyes immediately filled with interest and pride.

"Really. I heard the new coach is really good too" Burt said and smiled. "I'm sure you will win. And me and your mom will be there to watch you. And Kurt too I guess. If he can drag himself from the mall"

It was meant as a joke and Kurt knew his father meant no harm and normally it would be funny but it felt like it was always Finn that made his father interested and engaged. Kurt smiled as everybody else laughed at the joke.

"You remember "hair" on Saturday right dad?" Kurt asked and met his fathers eyes.

His father smiled warmly at him.

"Of course I remember" He said "Wouldn't wanna miss it for the end of the world"

Kurt smiled again.

"Me neither." He answered.

"Good" His father reached out and put one of his hands on Kurt's shoulder and Kurt had to bit his lip to not flinch as a wave of pain shot through his body. He knew he had a huge bruise on that particular shoulder since the jocks seamed to favourite the right row of lockers to shove him into which had lead to Kurt's shoulder being blue and slightly swollen and it hurt like crazy when ever he moved his it. Luckily his father didn't notice him tense up and went back to talking to Finn and Carole instead. Kurt felt relieved. It was hard to keep his face straight when ever someone bumped into him or he moved to fast but he knew he had to . He didn't want to worry his dad and his friends any more than necessary. He rubbed his shoulder carefully to try to ease the pain. Maybe he should try some voltareen or something? It had helped when he had hurt his knee during cheerios practice so maybe it was worth a shot?

Kurt settled down again and kept eating the stew in silence as he briefly listened at Finn's and his dad's footballs conversations that occasionally was interrupted by laughter when Finn told Burt something funny. Kurt excused himself from the table five minutes later and went to his room to do some work on an essay and to watch some "House". Luckily he had managed to manipulate his dad into buying him a TV so that he could watch everything in his room since the TV in the living room was always occupied with either football or baseball or sometimes a bad movie that his father and Carole used to watch on date nights. Immediately after dinner Finn had gone over to Mikes house for a COD night with the guys so the house was all quiet apart from the mumbling from the TV downstairs.

He wrote on his essay for half an hour but then he couldn't concentrate any more. He really wanted to talk to someone about the past days. Normally he wouldn't even hesitate to call Mercedes for an hour long chat but today he sat with his phone in his hand for several minutes before dialling the number he knew by heart.

Th fact that Mercedes hadn't even noticed how he had been let out in Glee, had hurt a lot. And she was always busy with her own things at school. They didn't even share any lessons any more since he had decided to take more advanced classes this year. Of course they would still catch up between classes but more often it involved Mercedes talking about her family or something she wanted to buy when she got her allowance. Kurt loved Mercedes with his whole heart.. Of course he did but lately even she had gotten a bit too pre-occupied to acknowledge him when ever he got shoved into a locker or when he had changed clothes twice before lunch. He knew she had a crush on Sam and thought about him a lot in school but was it too much to ask for that she would ask him how he was or if he had a crush?

It took Mercedes about five signals to answer.

"Hi Boo!" She said sounding a bit tired and stressed.

Kurt chewed on the bottom of his lip.

"Hi Cedes. Everything okay? You seem tired!" He said with a concerned voice.

Mercedes laughed causing a smile to lit on Kurt's face. How he loved Mercedes laughs.

"Yeah I'm actually baby sitting by brothers and they won't go to sleep. Wait. Hold on Kurt- No Elijah don't. Go back to your room I'll be up in a sec. And tell your brother to stop messing around. Hi Kurt. Sorry"

Kurt smiled again, remembering how energetic Mercedes' brothers could be. Esspecially during night time when they where suppose to sleep. He had helped her enough times to know it usually took at least two hours from when they brushed their teeth until they where asleep in their own beds.

"It's fine. You should have asked me to help you though" He said

Before Mercedes had a chance to answer there was a loud bang followed by a deep sigh.

"Oh god! Kurt I really need to go. They must have broken something. 'll call you later. Bye!"

With that she hung up and Kurt tossed his phone on his bad with a disappointed sigh. He really wanted t talk to his friend. Now he could only hope she would call him back. He sat down on his bed and looked around in his newly redecorated room. It was not as big as the basement but he liked it anyway. It was way better than having to share with Finn and didn't take him over an hour to tidy. Casting a look at the alarm clock told him it was still twenty minutes until House started so he decided to head down stairs to get something to drink or maybe some snacks.

As he made his way down the stairs he could here his father talk softly to Carole and as he walked closer he could here them talking about him. He stopped at the end of the stairs and listen quietly not wanting his father to know he could hear them.

"I'm. I can't get through to him, Carole, ant it's so frustrating. He's my son and I want to understand him."

His fathers voice was full of concern but it also sounded tired. Maybe his father really was tired of them being so different? Kurt swallowed.

"I know Burt but I assure you that you are the perfect father for him..."

There was a pause before Burt continued.

"It's just. I don't know what to say to him sometimes. I don't know what to to when I want to spend time with him and. We don't have anything in common."

Kurt swallowed. It wasn't entirely true but the list of things they both enjoyed was not long. His father sighed deeply.

"Sometimes it's just easier with Finn. Even if I haven't known him for that long. I can always talk football or baseball or take him to a game or watch a game at home. We have more in common I guess. With Kurt it's more complicated. He doesn't like sports and he doesn't really like cars he just works in the shop to get some money and to spend some time with me. But I know he rather be somewhere else"

His father's voice died out and Kurt decided he had heard enough and tipy toed up to his room again with out getting his snacks. He felt sad again. He sat down on the bed and hugged his knees with his arms. He knew his father loved him more than anything else in the world but he couldn't help but getting jealous when his father talked about how much Finn meant to him and how proud he was when Finn scored at football or how fun it was to finally have someone who was actually interested in football instead of Kurt who pretended to watch the game while reading vogue instead. Finn had even started to work in the garage almost every weekend which made Kurt feeling even more let out. He liked going there to help his father and even if it was mostly to make some extra money to be able to go shopping it was something he had done since he was little and something he and his dad used to do together. Now it seamed like Finn had taken Kurt's place in the garage too. Just like he had taken Kurt's place in the sofa during game nights.

His phone beeped and he reached for it.

From: Cedes

Sorry can't call you tonight.

We'll have to talk tomorrow.

Love you. Xoxo.

Angry tears welled up in his eyes but he wiped them away. He wouldn't cry over something this pathetic. He was a Hummel after all.

So it is a bit short but I hope you like it anyway. Boring chapter I know and not much happened but there will be more action later on I promise. And I also promise you BLAINE! He will arrive soon! Please give a little Christmas pressy and let me know what think. Would mean a lot to me and it makes me wanna update more often. Lots of love to all of you and have the happiest of Christmas'